Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
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Category: poetry
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Ten Poems about Sisters by KATHARINE TOWERS
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Category: poetry
A sister often knows us better than anyone. This selection of poems (a companion to Ten Poems about Brothers) explores that special relationship from the games and secrets of early childhood that we remember so vividly to the separate journeys of later life. For Dorothea Smartt, two sisters form a pair ...Show more
Christmas Wren by GILLIAN CLARKE
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Category: poetry
This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth, we are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke's story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales. Commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre, the story is for adults and children, and is a magical tale of th ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: poetry
John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
Ten Poems about Love by LORRAINE MARINER
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Category: poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own.
Ten Poems about Horses by ALISON BRACKENBURY
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Category: poetry
The poems in this selection take us on an exhilarating canter through our friendships with horses. Along the way, we meet an edgy stallion waiting for his winter bale and a pony picking her way across paddocks after having her hooves trimmed: "...she sidled through the silver air pretending to shy at sh ...Show more
Eleven Poems about Football by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN
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Category: poetry
Football has accrued its fair share of sound-bites and foot-in-mouth moments. The poems in this anthology strike an altogether more subtle note and take us to the very heart of why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and commands such lifelong devotion. There's a poem capturing t ...Show more
Ten Poems about Home by MAHENDRA SOLANKI
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Category: poetry
A beautiful and intriguing anthology of poems selected by Mahendra Solanki. His choices capture the many ways in which we experience that unique sense of being at home. There are poems that evoke "the daily furniture of our lives" and others that echo with the memories of a childhood spent far away. Con ...Show more
Ten Poems about Swimming by SAMANTHA WYNNE-RHYDDERCH
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Category: poetry
There's something at once elemental and child-like about moving through water whether we paddle like a dog or can manage an elegant crawl. These delightful poems explore the many joys of swimming in pools, rivers and oceans. We travel all the way from a child learning to swim at home on a piano stool to ...Show more
Ten Poems about Brothers by DI SLANEY
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Category: poetry
In this wonderful mini-anthology of poems celebrating brothers (a companion to Ten Poems about Sisters) we meet brothers of all ages and of all shapes and sizes, including the brother who: "has made, out of petrol and hormones, a little world for himself, a paradise of hang-gliders and cars;" - from 'My ...Show more
Ten Poems about Trees by KATHARINE TOERS
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Category: poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own.
Ten Poems about Husbands and Wives by DI SLANEY
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Category: poetry
"If ever two were one, then surely we." So says the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet. These days, her portrayal of the marriage bond as one of unconditional mutual devotion might underestimate the complexity of the husband/wife relationship. The other poems in this vivid and entertaining mini-an ...Show more